by Christopher Graham My dad was able to come back up to help out following my discharge. I was finally set free on post-op day…
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Getting stepped down to the floor was a very nice change from the ICU. For one thing, I was feeling better. That was the whole…
In complete contradistinction to the ambiguity of the long white coat, you, dear patient, are wearing something that tells the entire world precisely who you…
A few days passed in the hospital. Some of my friends came to visit. The mix of people who came to visit was interesting, too.…
by Christopher Graham That sense of not being able to tell reality from imagination lasted a couple days. During the days it was okay, but…
by Christopher Graham I vaguely remember waking up from the IR case. I don’t know if I went straight to dialysis or if I was…
by Christopher Graham One thing I didn’t realize about the hospital was that you’d get a different nurse most nights. It seems obvious in retrospect…
by Christopher Graham My urine output for the first day or two was actually quite excellent. So good, in fact, that they removed the Foley…
by Christopher Graham Your perception of time changes greatly in the ICU. It’s very, very easy to get disoriented. You’ve just been through one of…
by Christopher Graham One of the places on earth where you least want to find yourself, is in the surgical intensive care unit of a…
